Desktop Pictures
Fireworks
This Month’s Desktop Pictures
Happy New Year! This month’s set of desktop photos features a new collection of fireworks to help celebrate the arrival of 2007. This set was photographed by Lee Bennett in St. Louis, Missouri, standing atop the Edward Jones Dome during the 2005 Independence Day fireworks show. The camera was a Nikon D100, and all photos went through Adobe Photoshop CS2 to receive a subtle color saturation and contrast bump and to have a few of the camera’s stuck pixels erased.
Previous Months’ Desktop Pictures
Pictures from previous months are listed in the desktop pictures archives.
Downloading All the Pictures at Once
Some browsers can download an entire set of desktop pictures at once.
- iCab
Use the Download command to download “Get all files in same path.”
- OmniWeb
Choose “Save Linked ‣ Images…” from the File menu.
- Safari
Contributing Your Own Desktop Pictures
If you have a picture, whether a small series or just one fabulous or funny shot, feel free to send it to editor@atpm.com and we’ll consider publishing it in next month’s issue. Have a regular print but no scanner? Don’t worry. E-mail us, and we tell you where to send it so we can scan it for you. Note that we cannot return the original print, so send us a copy.
Placing Desktop Pictures
Mac OS X 10.3.x and 10.4.x
Choose “System Preferences…” from the Apple menu, click the “Desktop & Screen Saver” button, then choose the Desktop tab. In the left-side menu, select the desktop pictures folder you want to use.
You can also use the pictures with Mac OS X’s built-in screen saver. Select the Screen Saver tab which is also in the “Desktop & Screen Saver” System Preferences pane. If you put the ATPM pictures in your Pictures folder, click on the Pictures Folder in the list of screen savers. Otherwise, click Choose Folder to tell the screen saver which pictures to use.
Mac OS X 10.1.x and 10.2.x
Choose “System Preferences…” from the Apple menu and click the Desktop button. With the pop-up menu, select the desktop pictures folder you want to use.
You can also use the pictures with Mac OS X’s built-in screen saver. Choose “System Preferences…” from the Apple menu. Click the Screen Saver (10.1.x) or Screen Effects (10.2.x) button. Then click on Custom Slide Show in the list of screen savers. If you put the ATPM pictures in your Pictures folder, you’re all set. Otherwise, click Configure to tell the screen saver which pictures to use.
Mac OS X 10.0.x
Switch to the Finder. Choose “Preferences…” from the “Finder” menu. Click on the “Select Picture…” button on the right. In the Open Panel, select the desktop picture you want to use. The panel defaults to your ~/Library/Desktop Pictures folder. Close the “Finder Preferences” window when you are done.
Also in This Series
- Parting Shots · May 2012
- Tsavo National Park, Kenya · April 2012
- Rwanda · March 2012
- From ATPM Readers · February 2012
- Easter Island · January 2012
- Disney World · December 2011
- The Netherlands · November 2011
- Easter Island · October 2011
- New York City · September 2011
- Complete Archive
Reader Comments (3)
1) Get the "Pyrotheque" screensaver by toastycode
( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/30259 ), requires Tiger 10.4 or later
Get yourself that nifty little FREE script named bgscreensaver (bg stands for background) by bgstech :
http://www.bgstech.com/download.php?bgscreensaver_1.1.sit (requires 10.3.9 or later)
Install Pyrotheque, open System Preferences: Screensavers and select Pyrotheque
Run bgscreensaver
Enjoy.
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